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sweetharleygirl
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ashellinak
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Thank you
I am from Anchorage, but I do go to Maryland almost every year. Did not make it this past year, but hopefully I will this year.
"Larry is taken aback. The thought had never occured to him.
No hair? What would this mean? What will become of him? What will become
of his hairbrush? Larry wonders ..." Veggie Tales
No hair? What would this mean? What will become of him? What will become
of his hairbrush? Larry wonders ..." Veggie Tales
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NIU Book Man
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WELCOME - NEW MEMBERS INTRODUCE YOURSELF HERE
Good afternoon, I am entirely new to the Internet Book Database of Fiction.
1. Favorite Genre: Ranked: Science Fiction, Mysteries, Religious fiction, Historical, General
Corollary: I dislike any material that chronicles pointless violence, destruction, or shock value as a smokescreen substitute for having an actual plot.
2. Favorite Author: Isaac Asimov
3. Favorite Author that's not in Favorite Genre: Rex Stout
4. How/Why you picked your Member-Name: It’s based on the college I graduated from and my career (in library science).
5. How you found IBDoF: I was originally web surfing while looking for a book site analogous to the IMDB (Internet Movie Database) but I found this interesting site.
6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend: Hanley, Gerald. Gilligan’s Last Elephant. (1962)
7. Top 5 books/series: (strangely enough, my suggestions often change)
Brin, David. Brightness Reef. (1995)
Mann, Thomas. Buddenbrooks. (1901)
Dumas, Alexander. pere. The Count of Monte Cristo. (1844)
Tolkien, J. R. R. The Fellowship of the Ring. (1954)
Bear, Greg. Foundation and Chaos. (1998)
I’m a mathematician/computer scientist turned into librarian, married with children. My interest in books developed at a very early age.
I maintain a Microsoft Access database of my own design (has about 38,000 titles), where I try to track books that I am either interested in reading (about 400 flagged for future reading), or make notes of what I have read (have read/analyzed about 2,000 items, counting textbooks used in all grade levels of my school years). I lived in Illinois originally, moved to central Pennsylvania for 15 years, and am now back in Illinois. Although I live in the northwest Chicago suburbs (and love the Chicago area), I hope that someday my daughters get good jobs on the east coast. It would be neat to be somewhere around Philadelphia, Baltimore, or Washington, D.C. so we could take advantage of all the cultural opportunities there. My family is very close, and we share reading and live theater as interests.
As of today, I am entirely new to either the iblist site or ibdof. I'm always interested to hear about good books.
1. Favorite Genre: Ranked: Science Fiction, Mysteries, Religious fiction, Historical, General
Corollary: I dislike any material that chronicles pointless violence, destruction, or shock value as a smokescreen substitute for having an actual plot.
2. Favorite Author: Isaac Asimov
3. Favorite Author that's not in Favorite Genre: Rex Stout
4. How/Why you picked your Member-Name: It’s based on the college I graduated from and my career (in library science).
5. How you found IBDoF: I was originally web surfing while looking for a book site analogous to the IMDB (Internet Movie Database) but I found this interesting site.
6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend: Hanley, Gerald. Gilligan’s Last Elephant. (1962)
7. Top 5 books/series: (strangely enough, my suggestions often change)
Brin, David. Brightness Reef. (1995)
Mann, Thomas. Buddenbrooks. (1901)
Dumas, Alexander. pere. The Count of Monte Cristo. (1844)
Tolkien, J. R. R. The Fellowship of the Ring. (1954)
Bear, Greg. Foundation and Chaos. (1998)
I’m a mathematician/computer scientist turned into librarian, married with children. My interest in books developed at a very early age.
I maintain a Microsoft Access database of my own design (has about 38,000 titles), where I try to track books that I am either interested in reading (about 400 flagged for future reading), or make notes of what I have read (have read/analyzed about 2,000 items, counting textbooks used in all grade levels of my school years). I lived in Illinois originally, moved to central Pennsylvania for 15 years, and am now back in Illinois. Although I live in the northwest Chicago suburbs (and love the Chicago area), I hope that someday my daughters get good jobs on the east coast. It would be neat to be somewhere around Philadelphia, Baltimore, or Washington, D.C. so we could take advantage of all the cultural opportunities there. My family is very close, and we share reading and live theater as interests.
As of today, I am entirely new to either the iblist site or ibdof. I'm always interested to hear about good books.
Hi
I'm from England
late 40's
a wife and mom
love many many kinds of books...love lots of non-fiction, but read fiction when I need to relax.
Like someone a few posts back I love Agatha Christie, but can never remember what I have read of hers, or not...can't be many I haven't read, but as long as a few years have passed, (enough to forget 'whodunnit'), I can read them again
(that's one plus of getting older 
).
However, like that previous poster, she would not be on my 'favourite book' list...which is really hard to think of right now. I guess it varies from year to year.
Have loved Harry Potter books (as do my kids, particularly my eldest who is a boy Harry's age therefore has aged with him...i.e. was 11 when Harry was).
Read from when quite little, courtesy of mom teaching me to read (she is an avid reader).
Devoured all the different Enid Blyton series,' beginning with Noddy when little
- Secret Seven, Famous Five, Five Find-Outers, 'Island of Adventure' and all the other Blyton 'Adventure' series books.
The Buckinghams of Buckinghamshire (series) were also by her, if I remember correctly, (am sad many probably won't know these).
But mom used to take me to the public lending library a couple of times a week.
The Princess and Curdie books - George McDonald (although I don't think I fully understood them then, and think they may be allegories??).
Narnia Chronicles, which I have re-read so many times and found more in each time.
Love C.S. Lewis' adult books now too.
Didn't read much as a young teen (developing a social life and then early working years), but returned to reading from about 18 when I left home and had more time on my own.
I read the L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid-Banks when about 19 (and the two sequels), and Googling about those, this morning, led me to the IBD site, as I had a desire to read them again.
In the early 80's I became a Christian so started reading loads of Christian books (mainly non-fiction, but there are some Christian-based fiction books around)...
first reading Christian biographies (for encouragement etc), then moving onto doctrine and theology - for knowledge/balance etc.
But after having my kids, from the early 90's, I have needed to return to relaxing fiction also.
Love Jane Austen (did Pride & Prejudice for G.C.E./O-Level at 16), and have enjoyed well-made TV serialisations of her writings recently.
Saw a BBC production recently of The Cranford Chronicles by Mary Gaskell which has made me want to read those.
Not really a fan of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, but hubby is.
I guess I like realism, if it can be described as that...Harry Potter must be an exception to that because it is interwined with so much down-to-earth modern day realism.
oh! a book I wouldn't recommend... The Water Babies... tried to read it recently....it was ok, and quite good, till he fell in the river and became a kind of fishy thing...then it got too absolutely weird and mystical for me...yes, I guess it's allegorical of something, and I usually have instincts about spiritual allegories, but it was weird
I'm from England
late 40's
a wife and mom
love many many kinds of books...love lots of non-fiction, but read fiction when I need to relax.
Like someone a few posts back I love Agatha Christie, but can never remember what I have read of hers, or not...can't be many I haven't read, but as long as a few years have passed, (enough to forget 'whodunnit'), I can read them again
(that's one plus of getting older ).However, like that previous poster, she would not be on my 'favourite book' list...which is really hard to think of right now. I guess it varies from year to year.
Have loved Harry Potter books (as do my kids, particularly my eldest who is a boy Harry's age
therefore has aged with him...i.e. was 11 when Harry was).Read from when quite little, courtesy of mom teaching me to read (she is an avid reader).
Devoured all the different Enid Blyton series,' beginning with Noddy when little
- Secret Seven, Famous Five, Five Find-Outers, 'Island of Adventure' and all the other Blyton 'Adventure' series books.The Buckinghams of Buckinghamshire (series) were also by her, if I remember correctly, (am sad many probably won't know these).
But mom used to take me to the public lending library a couple of times a week.
The Princess and Curdie books - George McDonald (although I don't think I fully understood them then, and think they may be allegories??).
Narnia Chronicles, which I have re-read so many times and found more in each time.
Love C.S. Lewis' adult books now too.
Didn't read much as a young teen (developing a social life and then early working years), but returned to reading from about 18 when I left home and had more time on my own.
I read the L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid-Banks when about 19 (and the two sequels), and Googling about those, this morning, led me to the IBD site, as I had a desire to read them again.
In the early 80's I became a Christian so started reading loads of Christian books (mainly non-fiction, but there are some Christian-based fiction books around)...
first reading Christian biographies (for encouragement etc), then moving onto doctrine and theology - for knowledge/balance etc.
But after having my kids, from the early 90's, I have needed to return to relaxing fiction also.
Love Jane Austen (did Pride & Prejudice for G.C.E./O-Level at 16), and have enjoyed well-made TV serialisations of her writings recently.
Saw a BBC production recently of The Cranford Chronicles by Mary Gaskell which has made me want to read those.
Not really a fan of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, but hubby is.
I guess I like realism, if it can be described as that...Harry Potter must be an exception to that because it is interwined with so much down-to-earth modern day realism.
oh! a book I wouldn't recommend... The Water Babies... tried to read it recently....it was ok, and quite good, till he fell in the river and became a kind of fishy thing...then it got too absolutely weird and mystical for me...yes, I guess it's allegorical of something, and I usually have instincts about spiritual allegories, but it was weird
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axewound
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Keepin' it ghetto...
like the whitest of trash!!
Anna here! I like to read, and I refuse to name drop, (to you pretentious bastards out there!!) and I'm very blunt, and I listen to anything and everything, but I love Rockabilly, and I hate Betty Page. So, yeah. get used to me.
Anna here! I like to read, and I refuse to name drop, (to you pretentious bastards out there!!) and I'm very blunt, and I listen to anything and everything, but I love Rockabilly, and I hate Betty Page. So, yeah. get used to me.
"imma be like Travis Tritt struttin' his fine ass down to Florida"-Early Cuyler
Me, myself, I, billpayer, householder, designated driver, grammar nut...
Okay, so I've owned up to being a grammar nut, which is why I have to say, question three should read 'Favorite Author who's
not in Favorite Genre", because people are "who", not "what" or "that".
Now you know for sure that I'm a grammar nut.
Okay, questions...
1. Favorite Genre
2. Favorite Author
3. Favorite Author that's not in Favorite Genre
4. How/Why you picked your Member-Name
5. How you found IBDoF
6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend
7. Top 5 books/series
1. Okay, Genre is probably space opera, closely followed by Crime
2. Author - it's a tie between LMB & the Lee/Miller duo. Tough call.
3. Currently Lee Child, but it varies depending on what I'm reading.
4. It's a Indigenous North American word for frog. I couldn't find a glossary for Australian frog names. 26 is the magic number in our family.
5. LMB mentioned IBDoF in one of her 'myspace' blog posts.
6. That whole 'flowers in the attic' thing - way too creepy.
7. Number 1 is the Vorkosigan series but I'm pretty happy with the 'Sharing Knife' stuff too.
Number 2 is the Liaden Universe - I'm seeing a counsellor about my problem with 'Saltation'...
Number 3 is the Herris Serrano series; I have about a million spin-off books for this series I've thought of which Ms Moon doesn't seem to have written yet, but I'm happy to wait.
Number 4 is the Lee Child Jack Reacher books - nice predictable stuff.
Number 5 - hmmm. I'd have to say the JD Robb 'Eve Dallas' books - but only because I appear to own them all.
not in Favorite Genre", because people are "who", not "what" or "that".
Now you know for sure that I'm a grammar nut.
Okay, questions...
1. Favorite Genre
2. Favorite Author
3. Favorite Author that's not in Favorite Genre
4. How/Why you picked your Member-Name
5. How you found IBDoF
6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend
7. Top 5 books/series
1. Okay, Genre is probably space opera, closely followed by Crime
2. Author - it's a tie between LMB & the Lee/Miller duo. Tough call.
3. Currently Lee Child, but it varies depending on what I'm reading.
4. It's a Indigenous North American word for frog. I couldn't find a glossary for Australian frog names. 26 is the magic number in our family.
5. LMB mentioned IBDoF in one of her 'myspace' blog posts.
6. That whole 'flowers in the attic' thing - way too creepy.
7. Number 1 is the Vorkosigan series but I'm pretty happy with the 'Sharing Knife' stuff too.
Number 2 is the Liaden Universe - I'm seeing a counsellor about my problem with 'Saltation'...
Number 3 is the Herris Serrano series; I have about a million spin-off books for this series I've thought of which Ms Moon doesn't seem to have written yet, but I'm happy to wait.
Number 4 is the Lee Child Jack Reacher books - nice predictable stuff.
Number 5 - hmmm. I'd have to say the JD Robb 'Eve Dallas' books - but only because I appear to own them all.
Susan
Welcome!
Nice to have one more LMB fan around!
Be sure to visit the LMB quote game thread!
(Don't worry about Reede Kullervo's syntax: she is Croation, but, boy, does she know LMB's works forwards and backwards)
Nice to have one more LMB fan around!
Be sure to visit the LMB quote game thread!
(Don't worry about Reede Kullervo's syntax: she is Croation, but, boy, does she know LMB's works forwards and backwards)
Human is as human does....Animals don't weep, Nine
[i]LMB, The Labyrinth [/i]
[i]LMB, The Labyrinth [/i]
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CodeBlower
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Re: Me, myself, I, billpayer, householder, designated driver, grammar nut...
Doh!pakwa26 wrote:Okay, so I've owned up to being a grammar nut, which is why I have to say, question three should read 'Favorite Author who's not in Favorite Genre", because people are "who", not "what" or "that".
Um, actually, I was just making sure we were politically-correct for when people have favorite authors that are androids ..
.. yeah, that's it!
"Welcome" to all the new faces.
"Budge up, yeh great lump." -- Hagrid, HP:SS
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The gelding is what the gelding is, unlike people who change in response to their perceptions of events that may benefit or threaten their power. -- Lorn, Chapter LXXXII, Magi'i of Cyador
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The gelding is what the gelding is, unlike people who change in response to their perceptions of events that may benefit or threaten their power. -- Lorn, Chapter LXXXII, Magi'i of Cyador
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Reede Kullervo
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Welcome . I need somebody who'll correct me .
. I need somebody who'll correct me . pakwa26 wrote:Now you know for sure that I'm a grammar nut.
voralfred wrote:Welcome!
Nice to have one more LMB fan around!
Be sure to visit the LMB quote game thread!
(Don't worry about Reede Kullervo's syntax: she is Croation, but, boy, does she know LMB's works forwards and backwards)
Audaces fortuna iuvat.
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paris york
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Hi! I'm a Newbie
Favorite Genre
I've got to say that I love the gothic genre. As a matter of fact I'm thinking of writing my thesis on it, but I can't figure out whether I like American or British the most.
Favorite Author
This is a really tough one because I love Laurell K. Hamilton, who is a contemporary Gothic writer, I guess. But she isn't literary. For literary, I would say Poe.
Favorite Author that's not in Favorite Genre
I guess it's still Jane Austen...but I still admire the Bronte sisters and Toni Morrison.
How/Why I picked my Member-Name
Paris York is my penname which I named myself after my two favorite cities: Paris and New York
How I found IBDoF
I don't really remember. I think I was fascinated that it was the IMDB for books.
One book I would never recommend to a friend
Let's see... Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Top 5 books/series
1. Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Series
2. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (see a pattern here?)
3. Vernon Lee's Hauntings
4. Marie Corelli's Wormwood
5. Anne Sebold's The Lovely Bones
Note: These titles are subject to change.
I've got to say that I love the gothic genre. As a matter of fact I'm thinking of writing my thesis on it, but I can't figure out whether I like American or British the most.
Favorite Author
This is a really tough one because I love Laurell K. Hamilton, who is a contemporary Gothic writer, I guess. But she isn't literary. For literary, I would say Poe.
Favorite Author that's not in Favorite Genre
I guess it's still Jane Austen...but I still admire the Bronte sisters and Toni Morrison.
How/Why I picked my Member-Name
Paris York is my penname which I named myself after my two favorite cities: Paris and New York
How I found IBDoF
I don't really remember. I think I was fascinated that it was the IMDB for books.
One book I would never recommend to a friend
Let's see... Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Top 5 books/series
1. Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Series
2. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (see a pattern here?)
3. Vernon Lee's Hauntings
4. Marie Corelli's Wormwood
5. Anne Sebold's The Lovely Bones
Note: These titles are subject to change.
P. York
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sweetharleygirl
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Hi Paris York, welcome! Looks like we like some of the same types of books, Poe is one of my favorits and I'm addicted to Laurall K. Hamilton's books except it's the Merry Gentery series I'm reading (would like to try the Anita Blake books though).
Looks like we like some of the same types of books, Poe is one of my favorits and I'm addicted to Laurall K. Hamilton's books except it's the Merry Gentery series I'm reading (would like to try the Anita Blake books though).Live Well, Laugh Often & Love Much
Millions of people living as foes, maybe, it's not to late to learn how to love and forget how to hate. ~ Ozzy Osbourne
Millions of people living as foes, maybe, it's not to late to learn how to love and forget how to hate. ~ Ozzy Osbourne
Uh oh a new forum to waste my time on
Oh well aside from LibraryThing groups I don't really have a general place to discuss books.
Without further ado, I'm Caelesti (pron Kai-LESS-tee) a name which I use all over the internet. Pleased to meet ya. I just stumbled across this site and it looked really cool, so I thought I'd check it out. I'm an avid reader of mostly fantasy and science fiction, some historical fiction. For non-fiction I read pretty broadly: politics, social science, history, religion/spirituality, and mythology and folklore.
Oh well aside from LibraryThing groups I don't really have a general place to discuss books.
Without further ado, I'm Caelesti (pron Kai-LESS-tee) a name which I use all over the internet. Pleased to meet ya. I just stumbled across this site and it looked really cool, so I thought I'd check it out. I'm an avid reader of mostly fantasy and science fiction, some historical fiction. For non-fiction I read pretty broadly: politics, social science, history, religion/spirituality, and mythology and folklore.
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sweetharleygirl
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Hey guys. Ran across this place when I went looking for a IMDB for books. Got to say it looks like a great place for me to rant about whatever I happen to be reading ATM..
1. Favorite Genre
I do not like this question, and I do not like Genre's really. My favorite books are the ones that maybe are hard to put just into one Genre. If I was forced to name just one favorite 'genre' I guess I would say Fantasy or Sci-Fi.
2. Favorite Author
Hmm... I hate just picking one, but I guess its Steven King if I had to name just one. I also am a big Robert Jordan fanboy. Also tend to eat up Grisham novels.
3. Favorite Author that's not in Favorite Genre
Guess that would be Grisham, most legal thrillers are not my thing but I love pretty much everything he writes.
4. How/Why you picked your Member-Name
Its what I'm seeking in life ATM and means a lot of different things to me. Used a different handle 'JiMiTHiNG' online for years, thought it would be cool to use something new here.
5. How you found IBDoF
Google.
6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend
Hmmm...The Bible is pretty boring, and dangerous in the wrong hands. But I guess it would depend on the friend.
7. Top 5 books/series
Just doing a quick list.. I know I'll wish I had thought about it more in depth later... I suspect much of the stuff I have read more recently will come to mind now.
1. Wheel of Time. Although many people have many valid complaints about it, I'm still blown away by what RJ has done overall.
2. Cider House Rules. This book just plain rules.
3. We Where the Mulvaneys. Read this a little over a year ago and it still lingers a lot in my mind. Great read.
4. Dark Tower. No list of mine would be complete without at least one King entry.
5. Double Exposure. Piers Anothony's strongest work, IMHO.
1. Favorite Genre
I do not like this question, and I do not like Genre's really. My favorite books are the ones that maybe are hard to put just into one Genre. If I was forced to name just one favorite 'genre' I guess I would say Fantasy or Sci-Fi.
2. Favorite Author
Hmm... I hate just picking one, but I guess its Steven King if I had to name just one. I also am a big Robert Jordan fanboy. Also tend to eat up Grisham novels.
3. Favorite Author that's not in Favorite Genre
Guess that would be Grisham, most legal thrillers are not my thing but I love pretty much everything he writes.
4. How/Why you picked your Member-Name
Its what I'm seeking in life ATM and means a lot of different things to me. Used a different handle 'JiMiTHiNG' online for years, thought it would be cool to use something new here.
5. How you found IBDoF
Google.
6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend
Hmmm...The Bible is pretty boring, and dangerous in the wrong hands. But I guess it would depend on the friend.
7. Top 5 books/series
Just doing a quick list.. I know I'll wish I had thought about it more in depth later... I suspect much of the stuff I have read more recently will come to mind now.
1. Wheel of Time. Although many people have many valid complaints about it, I'm still blown away by what RJ has done overall.
2. Cider House Rules. This book just plain rules.
3. We Where the Mulvaneys. Read this a little over a year ago and it still lingers a lot in my mind. Great read.
4. Dark Tower. No list of mine would be complete without at least one King entry.
5. Double Exposure. Piers Anothony's strongest work, IMHO.
[i]Oh ye precious Children of God
You know not the Power you possess
The Fallen have no power over you.
They can only mislead you.
Man stands at the brink of change
This small opera has a greater Truth[/i]
You know not the Power you possess
The Fallen have no power over you.
They can only mislead you.
Man stands at the brink of change
This small opera has a greater Truth[/i]